Does DNA methylation in the promoter region of the ATXN3 gene modify age at onset in MJD (SCA3) patients?

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-102

  Emmel, V E ^a,b   Alonso, I ^c   Jardim, L B ^a,d   Saraiva Pereira, M L ^a,b   Sequeiros, J ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d Departamento de Medicina Interna   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 3;

CAG REPEAT; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DISEASE COURSE; DNA ISOLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE ROLLING; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650010388     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01508.x     Document Type: Letter

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